Thanks, lugoteehalt, edict seems like a pretty cool idea. Note, though, that it still looks up each word from dictionary.com right when you query it (doesn't cache words).
What I finally did, for anyone who cares: the books I want to analyze are available in plain text, so I awked out a list of all the unique words in the books (turned out to be only around 5,000 of them), and wrote a script to query dictionary.com for each word and cache the results locally. Even with a 10-second pause between words to be nice, it took less than a day, and now I can do my analysis at leisure.
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Last edited by gypsy_rabbi; 08-09-2006 at 05:10 PM.
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